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18 questions linked to/from What are the requirements for asking a game identification question?
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What should be done with questions asking for game identification? [duplicate]
UPDATE: Identify this game (ITG) questions based on the asker's memory are now off topic on the site.
The community reached this decision with 34 vs 27 votes
New ITG questions will be closed ...
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"Looking-for-game" [duplicate]
I've played a lot of games in the past, and sometimes I forget their name but am curious of finding it again.
Here's an example of such a question I have asked
Now, I consider these sort of ...
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My game identification question was closed as off-topic. Where can I ask for help instead?
I posted a game identification question which was closed as off-topic because it was lacking a screenshot or video from the game I'm trying to identify. Is there anywhere else I can ask my question if ...
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"Here is a thing. Look at the thing. Do you see the thing? I would like to know what this Thing is Called." A plea for sanity
identify-this-game was a Bad Tag. It was applied to Bad Questions. It is gone forever, and I could not be happier.
But it appears, that we have been throwing some babies out with our admittedly ...
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Re-evaluating the text of our Game Identification close reason
Update: Thanks to all for your suggestions and feedback! We have decided to go with Dragonrage's suggestion, which addressed all the key points, and combined the best parts of the other suggestions. ...
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Revisiting the Identify-this-game ban
I think the time is ripe to revisit our identify this game rules, following this week's discussion on chat and meta.
The status quo
The current policy is that any question asking to identify a game ...
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How best to ask about a game identification
I'm posting this here before writing up a question because, after reading the about page, I came across this rule:
X - Requests for game identification or recommendations
Now this rule lead me to ...
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Where do we stand on artifacts the asker believes are from a game?
We've got a class of questions related to game identification that we seem to be rather inconsistent on.
We've gotten several questions where the asker wants us to identify something, and believes ...
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Can we please Be Nice when commenting on ITG questions?
I understand that it's annoying to see game-identification questions that don't have artifacts. I understand that it is annoying that the people who post those questions don't seem to have bothered to ...
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Titles of game identification questions
My suggested edit to a game-identification question got rejected. The edit changed the title from
What Game is shown in this newspaper snippet?
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What game (isometric perspective, showing ...
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Should we allow an identification question for a game CD or game bundle that lacks a media or screenshot of the game CD or game bundle itself?
A game-identification question was recently asked to identify a game bundle in a game CD but lacks a media or screenshot of the game CD or game bundle itself. I've voted to close it but it was left ...
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Be more friendly!
Yes, a game-research question should contain a picture or something..
I had remembered a Demo was on a CD that is dated A to B in Magazine X and the genre as well as setting. So I asked my case. I had ...
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Should vague ITG questions have an edit window? [closed]
UPDATE: As of 16/3/2012, Game Identification/ITG questions based only on the asker's memory are now prohibited on the site. See the following post:
What are the requirements for asking a game ...
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User asks an identification question with a game artifact, has it closed, gets answer after closing, and wants to fix the question
We're running across an increasingly common occurrence in which a user asks an identification question with an artifact that people are concerned isn't from a game, the question is closed in very ...
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Are we shutting down art character identification questions?
This is an inconsistency that I'm seeing pop up fairly often. We get a lot of questions dealing with "Who is this character?" with a piece of artwork supplied, with the question having a fairly ...
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